Journal of Helminthology

Table of Contents - 1964 - Volume 38, Issue 3-4  

Research Papers

On the Second Case of Human Infection with Dirofilaria (Nochtiella) repens from Ceylon

W. D. Ratnavalea1 and A. S. Dissanaikea2

a1 Pathologist, General Hospital, Colombo

a2 Department of Parasitology, University of Ceylon

A male specimen of Dirofilaria (Nochliella) repens has been recovered from the skin of the right upper arm of a patient from Colombo, Ceylon who manifested signs and symptoms of bancroftian filariasis and had microfilariae in his peripheral blood. This is the second case of Dirofilaria infection reported from man in Ceylon.